By Marfy Goodspeed in Carman, Featured, Higgins, Hoagland, Hunterdon County, Pettit, Raritan Township 5 Comments Tags: cemeteries, early settlers, railroads, roads, surveying
My previous article about the planned route of the Delaware-Flemington Railroad Company ended at the property of Samuel M. Higgins on the west side of Johanna Farms Road. The route then proceeded across Higgins’ farm in a northeasterly direction, passing not far north of a house near a branch of the Neshanic River.
By Marfy Goodspeed in Delaware Township, Featured, Higgins, Raritan Township, Swallow, Thatcher, Trout 3 Comments Tags: Buchanan's Tavern, early settlers, land titles, maps, proprietors, railroads, roads
In this episode of the saga of the unbuilt rail line we travel from Sand Brook into Raritan Township, on our way to Walnut Brook. Here is a detail of the railroad survey map.
By Marfy Goodspeed in Carrell, Case, Delaware Township, E. T. Bush, Historians Revisited, Hunterdon County, Raritan Township 2 Comments Tags: maps, roads
This article by Egbert T. Bush concerns a family who lived in the Croton neighborhood in the mid-19th century. I thought it typical of Mr. Bush’s style of writing, which may seem a bit florid, but is full of empathy for the characters he described.
By Marfy Goodspeed in Britton, Horner, Hunterdon County, Kingwood Township, Sine, Thatcher 9 Comments Tags: houses, maps, roads, taverns
My previous post began with Egbert T. Bush’s article “Baptistown, One of Hunterdon’s Oldest Villages.” Baptists settled here very early and established a church by 1745. But there was another early institution here—the tavern, which was in operation before the Revolution.
By Marfy Goodspeed in Delaware Township, Dilts, Dilts Corner, Rittenhouse 7 Comments Tags: farming, Going, houses, portraits, roads
This is a return to an article I wrote in 2012 about the family that used to own what is known today as the Sarah Dilts Farm Park. Some wonderful photographs have come my way that have inspired me to take a second look.
By Marfy Goodspeed in Delaware Township, East Amwell, Hunterdon County No Comments Tags: early legislation, land titles, local government, politics, roads
In my previous post (A Shrinking Township, part one), I wrote about a petition in 1896 to take a large chunk out of Delaware Township and give it to East Amwell Township. That petition was signed by two East Amwell residents, William H. Manners and Simpson Sked Stout. This post will describe these two, as well as the journey the bill took through the legislature, and the property owners who were affected by it.
By Marfy Goodspeed in Bowne Station, Delaware Township, E. T. Bush, Fulper, Haines, Headquarters, Historians Revisited 3 Comments Tags: maps, roads
This article is a continuation of The Haines Farm, part one.
The Haines farm has a pretty remarkable history, as Mr. Bush wrote:
From the first Isaac Haines the property descended to his son, the second Joseph; from this Joseph to his son, the second Isaac; and from him to his son, the third Joseph, the present owner, to whom it was conveyed by his father and mother, March 10, 1920.
By Marfy Goodspeed in Delaware Township, Families, Howell, Larison, Rosemont 1 Comment Tags: houses, land titles, roads
By Marfy Goodspeed in Delaware Township, E. T. Bush, Heath, Hoppock 2 Comments Tags: early settlers, Haddon Tract, land titles, roads
Not long ago I published some articles about properties located in what was once known as The Haddon Tract (The Haddon Tract, part one). Today’s article by Egbert T. Bush concerns a very large farm located in that tract that I have not yet written about. It was sold by Jacob Sniter and Nicholas Sayn to John Peter Foxe of Amwell, who subsequently sold it to Jost Hoppock in 1749.
By Marfy Goodspeed in Delaware Township, Fulper, Kitchen, Raritan Township, Robins, Rounsavell 8 Comments Tags: early settlers, Haddon Tract, houses, roads
My previous article discussed the Bearder family and the home of Andrew Bearder, Sr. on the Locktown Flemington Road. Just east of this farm was another tract that Bearder shared with his son Jacob, but whose ownership goes back much further.
Andrew Bearder, Sr.’s homestead farm was part of Jacob Snyder’s plantation. But the farm next to it on the east was part of the 700 acres first sold by the Haddons to Daniel Robins. (For background on the Haddons, see The Haddon Tract, part one.)
